Have any of these questions piqued your curiosity? Then we invite you to join us at the Mid-Manhattan Library to hear noted non-fiction authors discuss these topics during the month of June and to reserve copies of their books using the links to the catalog included below. Author talks take place at 6:30 p.m. on the sixth floor. No reservations are required.

Wednesday, June 5, journalist Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, will be in conversation with Dr. Souhel Najjar of NYU Langone Medical Center, who saved her by diagnosing her autoimmune disease.

Thursday, June 13, playwright and essayist Sonia Taitz, author of The Watchmaker’s Daughter: A Memoir, describes her life as the American child of Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox, European concentration camp survivors.

Monday, June 17, celebrated photographer George Steinmetz gives an illustrated presentation exploring the world's “extreme deserts,” which receive less than four inches of precipitation per year. His recent book, Desert Air, is the first comprehensive photographic collection of the world's deserts.

Monday, June 24, Alfred Pommer and Eleanor WInter, authors of Exploring New York’s Soho, reveal the trendy Manhattan neighborhood’s fascinating history and describe its urban decline, which includes a period as an infamous red light district, and regeneration.

Thursday, June 27 fashion historian Polly Guérin, author of The Cooper-Hewitt Dynasty of New York, showcases the lives of Peter Cooper, Abram Hewitt and their kin as a quintessentially New York story of family, philanthropy and legacy in an illustrated lecture.

Those are all the Author @ the Library programs we've got for June. Find lists of non-fiction books by authors speaking at the Mid-Manhattan Library in the BiblioCommons catalog:

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